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#GuestPost: Jacinta Maree shares the theme music for The Immortal Gene series

To celebrate the recent release of the second book in The Immortal Gene series, author Jacinta Maree has stopped by to share how music ties with her books. She’s even included a playlist for you to listen to!

I really love learning about the music authors put to their work, as it adds an extra layer of world-building. I’ve even reread parts of books with the music playing just to fully immerse myself! So yeah, super psyched about this guest post!!! 😀

Also, don’t miss the giveaway at the end, and yes, it’s international!

Theme Music for The Immortal Gene

Music does play a big part in writing and exploring The Immortal Gene, especially as I try to reach different emotional points and maturity at certain points in the story. Despite being a rough and dark dystopian story, focusing a lot on violence and details of a cruel world losing its humanity, the whole theme behind it actually focuses on redemption.

We are introduced to a world of hungry people, lining up in what is quickly worked out to be a hopeless attempt of receiving perishables from the Government. Nadia, our main protagonist, is among them. Food can be tied to one’s survival, but the instinct to survive is quickly thrown back in our faces just by the fact everyone is quick and capable of killing or being killed. Showing that this world is full of juxtapositions and is working against ones wellbeing. The whole romance between the two love interests, Nadia and Diesel, are complete opposites and often find hatred in their love for each other.

So, it feels only fitting to have soft music fitting the theme of a violent and fast paced book. I have a few pieces that come to mind and I have reference them in other posts as well as being important. But there’s one piece in particular that I find very strong, and it is called Carry Me by Eurielle.

You will also see a lot of importance and ties with the lyrics, which I will include.

Eurielle – Carry Me

While you sleep, dream of me
I’ll be keeping our memories
Living in my heart and soul
Waiting for the day
When we will be together again

Chorus

Carry me to my love
O’er the sea to the clouds above
Where I know he’s waiting for me
Carry me to my love
O’er the sea to the clouds above

Take me away to the shining light
Over the waves peaceful at night
There among the stars glowing in the dark
You watch over me
Smiling down patiently

As you can see, there’s clearly signs of a loving romance being tied in with death. Death and love is intertwined a lot, same with the story. Throughout the entirety of The Immortal Gene, there are a lot of references to one’s sanity being broken due to the clashing of memories. They often describe it as being unable to understand which reality is real, and don’t know if they are dreaming or really awake. Nadia is the one exception in that she is not haunted by past lives, and is called a Soulless. A term for Soulless can be described as inhuman, one lacking of emotion or human feeling, which is a laughable as Nadia is the only person presented in the book as being capable of having emotions toward others.

Here’s my whole playlist.

As you’ll quickly notice, a lot of these pieces do not have lyrics in them and I like that because it detaches me from any preplaced feelings/ thoughts the original song writer had.

If the song mentions love, you will immediately think it is romantic. If it mentions death, you may find the piece depressing or sad. This allows me complete freedom to interpret the melody on my own.

Check it out for yourself, and I hope it helps open up your own mind and explore your own feelings.

About The Immortal Gene series

Soulless

Publication date: October 1st 2015

Welcome to Soulless.

We are the generation that laughs at death.

Reincarnation; what was once considered a gift of immortality has become an eternity of nightmares.

Nadia Richards lives in a world plagued by reincarnation, a system of recycling souls where all past memories, personalities and traumatic events are relived daily in disjointed sequences. Trapped within their own warped realities, not even the richest and most powerful are saved from their own minds unraveling. Madness is the new human nature, and civilizations are crumpling beneath themselves trying to outrun it.
Within a society that ignores death, Nadia appears to be the one exception to the reincarnation trap. Born without any reincarnated memories and with printless eyes, the hot tempered 19 year old quickly becomes the ultimate prize to all those wishing to end the vicious cycle, or for some, to ensure they could evade death forever.

Soul Finder

Publication date: September 16th 2016

Since being discovered as Soulless, Nadia has become a target for both terrorist groups and government corporations. Now, her only hope for survival rests in the hands of the man sent out to kill her: Diesel, the Mad Dog terrorist.

Diesel is determined to free himself of the never ending curse of reincarnation and the haunting memories that plague his mind. But when his search leads him to Nadia, a greater desire stills him from taking her life.

Unable to see into Diesel’s cracking mind, Nadia instead puts her faith into his strength, fueled by eleven generations of unmatched rage and insanity. Their tight-rope relationship balances the two between life and death, love and rage, trust and betrayal.

Tension pulls at the hems of their dangerous companionship, and as time runs out all madmen must eventually make their choice.

Book two of the thrilling Immortal Gene series dives deeper into the danger of trusting your heart over your head.

About Jacinta Maree

Born in Melbourne Australia, Jacinta Maree considers herself a chocoholic with an obsession with dragons, video gaming and Japan. She writes a variety of genres including YA paranormal, steampunk, horror, new adult, dystopian and fantasy. Winner of 2014 Horror of the year and bestselling author, Jacinta writes to bring enjoyment to others while fulfilling her own need to explore the weird and the impossible.

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